Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-1 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 SECTION 15 RESULTS ANIMATION

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-2 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-3 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 RESULTS ANIMATION Modal and transient animation can be performed in Results Transient animation can be performed with respect to any global variable, such as time, load case, or frequency All posted tools will be displayed during an animation, but only the tools with animation enabled will change from frame to frame Animation controls appear automatically when a plot is animated

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-4 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 TYPICAL RESULTS ANIMATION Frame 1Frame 7 Frame 13 Frame 20

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-5 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 QUICK PLOT ANIMATION To perform a simple modal animation, select Action: Create, Object: Quick Plot Select the desired fringe and/or vector result Click on and click Apply to create the animation frames

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-6 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 ANIMATION CONTROL SETUP So far we have discussed setting up and controlling Quick Plot animation of a single Results Case Animation sequences pertaining to global variables (e.g. transient animation) and modal analysis can be performed in greater detail by clicking the Animation Options button when the plot is created Animation Options Button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-7 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 ANIMATION OPTIONS FORM When creating a plot clicking the Animate button sets the Animate Method pull-down menu on the Animation Options form to a value, e.g., Global Variable Animate Method: Global Variable – allows the animation of a tool with respect to any global variable (only available when more than one Results Cases have been selected) Modal – applies a sine function (-1 < sine < 1) to the tools response Ramp – allows animation of a tools response by multiplying the response by a range of scale factors from 0 to 1

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-8 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 ANIMATION CONTROL Once the animation has stared, you can pause and change the animation attributes Animation Sequence: Cycle:animation cycles in a circular manner (frame 1,2,…,max,1,2,…,max, etc.) Bounce:animation cycles from max to min (frame 1,2,…,max,max-1, etc.) Once the animation is paused, it can be advanced forward one frame at a time and the start/end frames may be changed To terminate the animation tool select the Stop Animation button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-9 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 SETTING UP NON-QUICK PLOT ANIMATION Procedure for setting up an animation In the Select Results form In the Animation Options form 1 Select a set of Result Case(s) and a result type Select Animation Options button Set Action to Create and Object to the desired plot type Click on Animate Select the number of frames Click Apply 5 7 Set Animation Method to Global Variable 8 6 Select global variable, e.g. Time

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-10 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE Create a new database File/New… Enter plate for new database name. OK. Under New Model Preferences, Select Default Tolerance. Select MSC.Nastran for Analysis Code. Select Structural for Analysis Type. OK.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-11 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Import the plate model and results. Select the Analysis Applications button. Set Action/Object/Method to Access Results/Read Output2/Both Click Select Results File… Select plate_vibration.op2. OK. Apply. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-12 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Change the view and display. Click the following icon to switch to Iso1 View Fit view the display by clicking on CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-13 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Select Results. Select the Results Applications button. Set Action/Object to Create/Deformation. Click the Select Results button Click the View Subcases and Select Subcases button Select Global Variable for Filter Method. Select Range for Values. Enter 0.0 for Min. Enter 0.04 for Max. Filter. Apply. Close. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE View Subcases Select Subcases

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-14 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Finish selections for deformation display. Select Component for Show As. Select ZZ. Select Animate. Do not click Apply yet. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-15 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Specify target entities – results are to be displayed on target Click the Target Entities Button Select Current Viewport for Target Entity. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-16 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Specify deformed color, line style, scale factor. Click on the Display Attributes button Under Deformed, select the color desired. Select a line style for Line Style. Enter 0.25 for Scale Factor. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-17 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Set animation parameter values. Click on the Animation Options icon Select Global Variable for Animation Method. Select Time for Select Global Variable. Select 3D for Animation Graphics. Enter 20 for Number of Frames. Apply. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-18 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE Time= secTime= sec Time= sec Time= sec

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-19 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 In Animation Control change the animation sequence to Cycle. Change the number of frames. Click Stop Animation. Enter 10 for Number of Frames. Apply. Stop the Animation and reset the graphics Click Stop Animation. Click the following icon to reset the graphics CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-20 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Create an XY plot of nodal degree of freedom versus time. Set Action/Object/Method to Create/Graph/ Y vs X. Click the Select Results button Select Z Component for Quantity. Select Global Variable for X. Select Time for Variable. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-21 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 Create an XY plot of nodal degree of freedom versus time(continued). Click on the Target Entities Button. Select Nodes for Target Entity Select a node(e.g. Node 2) for Select Nodes. Apply. CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-22 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 The XY plot should look like the following The appearance of it can be modified using XY Plot CASE STUDY: POST PROCESSING TRANSIENT RESPONSE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-23 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003 EXERCISES Perform Workshop 17 Box Beam With Transient Load in your exercise workbook.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results Animation S15-24 PAT301, Section 15, October 2003